The Abandoned House

The floor breathes, the walls whisper. Forgotten traces emerge, while something else has taken up residence in the abandoned rooms. Step into The Abandoned House and experience what the house calls forth.

The Abandoned House is a site-specific and immersive performance art experience created for derelict buildings. Audiences step over the threshold and enter a state of heightened awareness. The tempo slows, senses are awakened, and gaze is opened.

The house's architecture forms the framework for a total installation with hyper-naturalistic doll sculptures, performers, and subtle interplay between sound and light. There is no stage, no set seating area, and no story to follow. Instead, you are invited to listen, participate, and move through the spaces, letting your gaze linger on forgotten traces and unexpected connections, where the boundary between the abandoned and the living slowly dissolves.

The building has absorbed its own deposits and becomes a temporary space of possibility where past, present and future meet. The abandoned rooms do not merely carry memories – they continue to conjure up something unknown. It is not the action, but your attention, that becomes the driving force of the work.

The house becomes more than a facade and a function in the city's space. Through the scenographic installation and the audience's presence, the place is reactivated as living architecture and a cultural presence in the local environment.

Meeting point: Vordingborg Station waiting room

Crediting
Svend E. Kristensen: artistic director, performer, puppeteer
Louise Bonde: performer
Esben Wormslev: performer
Jesper Pedersen: director
Laura Rathschau: costume designer & set designer
Andro Mazoni: composition & sound design
Martin Danielsen: lighting designer
Anna Gohr: Production Manager
Katrine Karlsen: puppet maker
Klara Svejgaard: intern
Kristine Kohlmetz: producer

Produced by Sew Flunk Fury Wit in co-production with Egnsteatret.

Thanks to models Alvin Kristensen and Emilie Largier, nail artist Rosa Kohlmetz and puppet builder assistant Tom Vogel.
Støttet af Statens Kunstfond, Knud Højgaards Fond, William Demant Fonden, Aage, Vordingborg Kommune og Johanne Louis Hansens Fond, Dansk Skuespillerforbund og DSB.